Mead - Wiccan - http://maxpages.com/velvettsky/Mead

Mead is called the Necter of the Gods, or Love Drink. It was originated by pagans as a wedding cerimony, the honey moon. It's a drink that helped fertility, made a good magiage, and especially helped the birth of a baby boy. At this ceremony the people wold dance and sing for so long, it would sometimes last a full moon cycle.

This is a very good drink to celebrate nature and it's beauty. The most basic recipies for mead is just plane honey and water. with naturally occuring yeasts. It's easy to make and unlike homemade wines, it's delicious! I have put on some recipies, so that you can brose through them and try them if you have the time.

Traditional Mead: Water, honey, and yeast, much like Reisling wine but with a unique flavor.

Melomel: Mead flavored with fruits such as apricot, blackberry, blueberry, cranberry, grapefruit, mulberry, peach, plum, strawberry, rasberry, pear etc.

Cyser:melomel with applejuice
Pyment:melomel with grape juice
Braggot: an ale or beer meed with hps and malted barley

Metheglin: spiced meads that may have originally been created to cover the flavor of fermentation contamination. This category includes such flavors as bergamot, lavender, nutmeg, vanilla, juasmine, clove and more.

the info on Mead, Philtre and the besom briefs all came form www.paganpath.com

amandamegson@yahoo.ca

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